Bektashism and folk religion

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Folk religious beliefs and practices exist in Bektashi Order.[1][2][3] While Bektashism was originally founded as an Islamic Sufi order,[4][5] it became widespread in the Ottoman Empire, throughout Anatolia as well as in the Balkans, where it acquired beliefs and practices from many folk religions, mainly of the Albanians and northern Greeks, and also from Anatolian and Balkan Eastern Orthodox Christians and Gnostics, and therefore Bektashism became a syncretic and perennialist Sufi order.[6] The other Balkan and Anatolian religious communities, such as Christians also had this habit of acquiring folk religious beliefs and practices.[7]

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Folk religious practices remain in the Bektashiyyah tariqa and certain practices are also found to a lesser extent in Balkan Christianity and non-Bektashi Balkan Islam as well, according to some Western Islamic scholars.

  1. ^ Evans, A. 1901. Mycenean Tree and Pillar Cult and its Mediterranean Relations. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 21. pp99-204.
  2. ^ Crowfoot J.W. 1900. Survivals among the Kappadokian Kizilbash (Bektash). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 30. pp305-20.
  3. ^ Antonaccio, Carla M (1994). "Contesting the past: hero cult, tomb cult, and epic in early Greece". American Journal of Archaeology: 390.
  4. ^ DOJA, ALBERT (2006). "A Political History of Bektashism from Ottoman Anatolia to Contemporary Turkey". Journal of Church and State. 48 (2): 423–450. doi:10.1093/jcs/48.2.423. ISSN 0021-969X. JSTOR 23922338.
  5. ^ J. K. Birge (1937), The Bektashi Order of Dervishes, London.
  6. ^ Nicolle, David; pg 29
  7. ^ Filipova, Snežana. Notes on the continuous multi-confessional use of shrines, cult places, Christian relics and springs of holy water in the Republic of Macedonia.